School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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- (continued from previous page)14. If it takes two yards and a half to make a suit, what would it take to make a waistcoat?
Ans- A tailor.
15. Why should you never write a letter on your knee?
Ans- because letters should be written on paper.
16. Why is the sun like a hard working carpenter?
Ans- because he is putting in the beams all day.
17. Why is a hungry man like a glutton?
Ans- One longs to eat and the other eats too long.
- 1. What is full and still holds more?
Ans- A pot of potatoes when water is poured in.
2. What goes under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
Ans- A cake in a bastible.
3. As black as ink as white as snow and hops around like a hailstone?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nono Mahony
- Address
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
